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Reasons to hate the Special Edition DVDs Coming Monday, October 18, 2004

#1 Chefelf

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Posted 14 October 2004 - 12:46 PM

Just to let you know my first article on the new DVDs is coming this Monday, October 18, 2004. Check Lance & Eskimo on Monday for the URL!

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 01:06 AM

Great! One reason to like that one particular Monday! Thank you!

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 01:41 AM

Yay!

Chef, did you buy the Remastered DVD box set? If so, what did you think of the documentary? I thought it was rather good. I was expecting just a cheap, poorly pasted together display of past SW "on set" footage with some Narrator telling us how ILM is the greatest.

Instead it had interviews with all the big names of SW. Plus a little mini doc on Lucas' early years as a director.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 07:09 AM

Yay! Too bad that's my first day of term...

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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?

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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 07:49 AM

QUOTE (Jordan @ Oct 15 2004, 02:41 AM)

Chef, did you buy the Remastered DVD box set? If so, what did you think of the documentary? I thought it was rather good. I was expecting just a cheap, poorly pasted together display of past SW "on set" footage with some Narrator telling us how ILM is the greatest.

I didn't buy it. Perhaps now is the time to thank the ever-generous civilian_number_two for buying it for me and shipping it from Vancouver! Thanks, buddy!

The special features DVD is quite good. The documentaries are far better than the ones on the Prequel discs. They are loaded with behind the scenes footage and really interesting information. "Empire of Dreams" was really great.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 05:38 PM

any chance of a little taster?

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 05:56 PM

I loved how honest Harrison Ford was. He basically said

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A) He loved SW because it made him a star

He was amazed at how Lucas can bend other peoples will in order to complete his goal

C) He did not want to come back for ROTJ, he wanted Lucas to kill his Character

D) He thinks Lucas can't direct human beings all that well and/or he expects to much from them

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I'm not sure Lucas ever recovered from the pains he experienced on the set of SW (AHH).

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Civillian should have bought it from my store. I would have tossed in a free bag of pop corn.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 06:33 PM

Ah, I got it at Future Shop. I don't think anyone had it cheaper.

Although this popcorn is intriguing. Pre-popped, or the microwave kind?

"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 02:38 AM

Read them.

I especially like the Nitpick #8. How could I have not noticed that there are nostarlines in prequels! It is such an icon.

I remember, back in the days when Museum of Moving Images in London had not yet been closed due to the lack of funds, I spend almost a whole day starry-eyed and thrilled strolling around. There was a screen showing bits of greatest films in the history. Along with Judy Garland cavorting with Tin Man et al there was the Millenium Falcon jumping to the hyperspace.

How come that GL did not include it in the prequels! The scene made it into a MUSEUM, for heaven's sake. Remark - there wasn't any Boba Fett visible.

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 03:37 AM

Nit Pick 1 was the best. I felt like tossing a pillow at the screen when all I saw was the backside of some unknown reptile creature.

Good work!

I think you missed one change. The echo's added during the leia/luke swing across the gap, inside the deathstar. It was actually for the better, so it probably has no place on the list.

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 05:27 AM

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Why include a familiar alien such as a Mon Calamari or a Sullustan when you can have a Rastafarian Velociraptor in its place?

I'm only on the second reason and I'm already in hysterics. And I love the rating scales. Great work, Chefelf!

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 08:08 AM

QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ Oct 18 2004, 03:38 AM)

I especially like the Nitpick #8. How could I have not noticed that there are nostarlines in prequels! It is such an icon.

Yeah, it's really such a simple thing that could have been added to the prequels to make them feel a little more closely related to the OT... and they needed all the help they could get.

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I think you missed one change. The echo's added during the leia/luke swing across the gap, inside the deathstar. It was actually for the better, so it probably has no place on the list.

It was one of those things I noticed but wasn't sure if it was in the original or not. My OT was carelessly left at my parents' before moving to NY, so I had nothing to compare to.

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I'm only on the second reason and I'm already in hysterics. And I love the rating scales. Great work, Chefelf!

Thanks, Helena. The rating scale was a las minute touch.

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 10:11 AM

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This is like absent-mindedly pinching Don Corleone's wife's boobs as you calmy explain to him how you lost his money.

That has to be my favourite line, but I have to say that I liked the scales as well.

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